MEDIA EVENS AND NEWS CULTURE CONCEPTS; TO BE CONCIDERED AND INCLUDED IN THE ESSAY Lecture/seminar Topic Key reading 1 2 What is News? News Discourses and News Values: information, representation and the ‘cultural screen’ Bednarek‬, M and Caple, H. 2012. News Discourse. London: Bloomsbury‬‬‬ (Chapters 2 and 3). Hearns, Jesse. 2016. Journalism and the philosophy of truth: beyond objectivity - Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman. Routledge. See the intro and chapters 1-2. 3 Flat earth news: PR and Infotainment Davies, N. 2009. Flat Earth News: an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media. London: Vintage (chapter 3). Who watches the watchdogs? - Ryan J. Thomas, Teri Finneman, 04/03/2014 A COMPROMISED FOURTH ESTATE? - Justin Lewis, Andrew Williams, Bob Franklin, 02/2008 4 Real events and media events Dayan, D and Katz, E. 1994. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. First Harvard University Press (chapter 1). 5 Media Events Case Studies: 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis Stepinska, A. 2010. ‘9/11 and the transformation of globalized media events’. In Nick Couldry Media Events in a Global Age. London. Routledge (chapter 14). Knowles, S, G. Phillips and J. Lidberg, ‘Reporting the Global Financial Crisis: A Longitudinal Tri-Nation Study of Mainstream Financial Journalism’, Journalism Studies, 2015. A creative project in a format appropriate for a specific media form (i.e. a photogallery, or a news story, or a PR campaign) addressing the contents of the module, with a reflective analysis of the processes involved (analysis should be 1,500 words) . 7 Celebrities, Tabloids and Democracy Turner, G. 2014. Understanding Celebrity. Los Angeles: Sage (Chapter 4) 8 New Documentaries and Journalism as Storyteling Watch one of these two documentaries: either Michael Moore’s Farenheit 9/11 (2004) or Louis Theroux’s The City Addicted to Crystal Meth (2009) 9 Media, Morality and Moral Panic Cohen, S. 2011. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: the Creation of Mods and Rockers. London: Routledge (Chapter 1, Deviance and Moral Panics) Half a Story? Missing Perspectives in the Criminological Accounts of British Muslim Communities, Crime and the Criminal Justice System - Julian Hargreaves, 01/2015 10 Moral Panics Case Study: Hackers, Heroes or Villains? Greenwald, G. 2014. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State. London: Hamish Hamilton (Introduction). Greenwald, G. 2013. The Guardian. On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation. [online] Available at: